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In Absentia: Four Egyptian Agents to be Tried For Murdering Italian Student Published December 13th, 2020 - 09:49 GMT
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Giulio Regeni is an Italian postgraduate student who was found dead near a road in Cairo in 2016.
The disclosure of Egyptian security officials’ names came shortly after Cairo had closed an investigation into the 2016 murder of an Italian student in Egypt.
Italian prosecutors announced yesterday they were ready to file charges against four out of five Egyptian secret service members over the abduction, torture and murder of Giulio Regeni, an Italian postgraduate student who was found dead near a road in Cairo in 2016.
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image captionRallies calling for the truth behind Giulio Regeni s murder have been held in Italy
Italy has formally accused four Egyptian state security officers of the kidnap, torture and murder of Italian postgraduate student Giulio Regeni near Cairo in 2016.
Prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence against a fifth agent.
Those named will now have 20 days to respond, and any trial will probably be in absentia.
The Cambridge University student had been researching independent trade unions - a sensitive issue in Egypt.
Italian prosecutors named the four suspects - now set to be charged - as Gen Tareq Sabir, Col Ather Kamal, Maj Magdi Sharif and Col Hisham Helmy.
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Italian Prosecutors Seek Trial For Four Egyptians Over Regeni Murder
Italian prosecutors said on Thursday they planned to charge four senior members of Egypt s security services over their alleged role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016.
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ROME: Italian prosecutors said on Thursday they planned to charge four senior members of Egypt’s security services over their alleged role in the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016.
In a statement, the prosecutors said all four were suspected of taking part in the “aggravated kidnapping” of Regeni. It said one of them, a major in Egypt’s general intelligence, also faced charges of “conspiracy to commit aggravated murder”.